Bibliograph

How not to get rich, the financial misadventures of Mark Twain, Alan Pell Crawford

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Label

How not to get rich, the financial misadventures of Mark Twain, Alan Pell Crawford

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

How not to get rich

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Alan Pell Crawford

Sub title

the financial misadventures of Mark Twain

Summary

A detailed and humorous account of the various disastrous money schemes and entrepreneurial pursuits of Mark Twain, who was noted for his spectacularly bad financial decisions during the Gilded Age

Table Of Contents

Author's note -- Whatever I touch turns to gold -- That splendid enterprise -- Do you gamble? -- I had to seek another livelihood -- All that glitters -- Rich and brimful of vanity -- The richest place on earth -- Poor, pitiful business! -- It is ours " all ours : everything -- In fairyland -- To live in this style-- -- How the ignorant and inexperienced succeed -- Feel rich at last -- The proportions of my prosperity -- This awful mechanical miracle -- Our prosperity became embarrassing -- Get me out of business! -- His money is tainted -- Mark Twain loses all -- Knocked flat on my back -- Money for a monument -- You cannot lose a penny -- To succeed in business-- -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

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